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Facebook’s Zuckerberg at Center of Emails Released by U.K. Parliament

Documents include comments by CEO on risks of sharing user data and possibly charging developers for access

A look at documents released by a U.K. lawmaker as part of a British parliamentary committee inquiry into “disinformation and fake news,” reveals how Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave select developers special access to user data and deliberated on whether to sell that data. Photo: Getty Images

The U.K. Parliament released on Wednesday a trove of internal Facebook Inc. emails that show Mark Zuckerberg and other executives pursuing hard-nosed tactics to stifle competitors, as well as considering a range of possibilities for monetizing the massive amounts of data the company collected on its users.

The documents show that Facebook gave some third-party developers special access to user data and several years ago contemplated charging developers for data access, a step that would have marked a dramatic shift away from...